Doesn’t that look like the kind of place you’d like to spend a year?
That’s Lippmann House on the Harvard campus, where I’m lucky enough to come to work every day. It’s also the home of the Nieman Fellowships, the wonderful program that allows journalists to spend a year at Harvard, taking classes and researching [...]

January is awards entry season in newsrooms across the country — the time when copy machines burn through countless toner cartridges, churning out copies of that great story you wrote back in April, the one that got the mayor thrown in jail.
And since more journalists are facing financial difficulties these days, it’s worth appreciating [...]

…and we’re back from our winter break. (A special thanks to The New York Times’ David Carr, who gave separate shout-outs to our site and our Twitter account while we were away. Also, hello, 1,000 new followers.) We’ve got lots of new and exciting stuff planned for 2010, so stay tuned.

If you follow our Zach Seward on Twitter, you may have seen his announcement yesterday that he’ll be leaving us at the end of this week. He’s gotten a great job at The Wall Street Journal. (You’ll actually still see Zach around here, in his new role as Lab blogger.) We’re thrilled for him, even [...]

The leaves are turning and there’s a chill in the air, which can only mean one thing: It’s time to think about applying for a Nieman Fellowship here at Harvard.
For 70-plus years, the Nieman has given accomplished mid-career journalists the chance to step away from their work and spend a year studying at Harvard. Niemans [...]

Today, October 27, is the one-year anniversary of the Nieman Journalism Lab. We launched with this quick interview with Ana Marie Cox on her last-minute pre-election Twitter fundraising. (Ana’s since reached 1.3 million Twitter followers.)
Our mission is to chronicle how journalism is changing, to figure out where the business and the craft are going, and [...]

Zach and I are about to head to San Francisco for the 2009 Online News Association conference, the annual gathering of the tribe. If you spot us there, be sure to come say hello — we love meeting our readers.
In fact, we’re going to have a little get-together on Friday evening at 6 p.m. for [...]

Since February 2005 — it is sort of stunning to think that this was more than four years ago — I’ve been intermittently blogging about the future of journalism, journalism and social movements, and media-related issues in general. And when I first started my scholarly investigations into how news practices were changing, in 2003, I [...]

I’m pleased to announce another addition to our collection of voices here at the Lab: C.W. Anderson.
(You may know him from the Internets and our comments section as Chris Anderson. But there are already too many Chris Andersons talking about media, so it’s C.W. from now on. Although, confusingly, it’s @chanders on Twitter.)
C.W. will bring [...]

I’m very pleased to announce two new additions to the blogging voices here at the Nieman Journalism Lab. Starting today, you’ll occasionally see the bylines of Gina Chen and Jim Barnett appearing on these pages.
You may know Gina from her blog Save the Media, which we’ve pointed to regularly. She spent 20 years in newspapers, [...]

I’m happy to announce a rare event in contemporary journalism: The availability of a good job.
This good job happens to be working for me here at the Nieman Journalism Lab. We’re looking for a full-time reporter and editor to join our little newsroom here at Harvard. This person would do the kinds of things we [...]

Attention Boston-area readers: I’m speaking at three upcoming journalism events you might find interesting.
— First, on July 20, I’ll be moderating a Mediabistro panel on the evolution of journalism. The panelists include Bob Buderi of Xconomy, Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting, and Bob Kempf of Boston.com. The cost is normally $30, but you can get [...]

I’ve been hesitant to post anything since there have been a few false alarms in the past two weeks, but it does truly appear that my friend and Nieman colleague Iason Athanasiadis has been released from Iranian custody. CPJ has issued a statement on his release, which I imagine is as good a confirmation as [...]

You may have seen that our friend Iason Athanasiadis has been arrested by the Iranian government. Iason is a Greek freelance journalist with wide international experience and was a member of the 2007-08 class of Nieman Fellows here at Harvard.
Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation and my boss, has written a statement on [...]

When I announced we’d be having a few interns (er, “microinterns”) this summer, I could not have guessed the response: 166 applicants from six countries, a huge swath of them terrific. It was a long battle winnowing their number down — and I ended up taking more than I’d expected — but these seven won [...]